Education: Lesson in New Rochelle

By refusing to review a lower court decision, the U.S. Supreme Court
last week upheld desegregation of a predominantly Negro school in the
New York City suburb of New Rochellefirst Northern community found
guilty of segregating Negroes by gerrymandering district lines.

New Rochelle had claimed that the Negro neighborhood around Lincoln
School (94% Negro last year) "had, like Topsy, just grown that way, and
appealed the decision on the ground that it seemed to make any
"racially unbalanced" school illegal. Last week's Supreme Court action
failed to clarify that issue. New Rochelle's angry school board is now
considering free transfers for all...